IMHO, there is a threshold of bad **** that is gonna eff up anybody exposed to it.
Maybe we differ in how we view "just fine". To me "just fine" is being unaffected in any way. See, I actually believe even small things affects us. I can deal "just fine" with losing a five euro bill, but I don't deal "just fine" with losing a friend or my cat dying. Just because I don't kill myself over some things, don't mean I dealt "just fine". Lot of small **** still manages to sneak up and hurt. I don't deal "just fine" with job rejections, with people doubting my abilities, with things not going my way. Maybe I am a sensitive one eh. But there's very little things I handle "just fine". At the same time, this I refuse to see this inability as some sort of disorder or glitch in brain (actually, I handle suggestion of my brain being wrong doubleplusUNjustfine).
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Also I don't see how acknowledging the disorder part is stigmatizing and tainting...I think it is important to acknowledge PTSD is a disorder and not just part of the normal trauma/grieving process. Saying it is just natural and not a disorder to me is stigmatizing and tainting as it defines it as a normal reaction...rather than the debilitating condition it is.
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I think something can be normal reaction and be extremelly painful and debilitating at the same time. Hence my "some things are supposed to hurt" comment. It happens. Then it comes to it how you deal with it, how much support network you got, where you go from there.
I think we gotta agree to disagree.
But for my well-being, thinking of myself as "disordered" would be the straw to break my back at times. When I say "normal, human reaction"... maybe it's a self-assurance for myself, that I *WILL* be fine. If label of "disorder" helps you in your experience, feel free to use it.
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